Approved: 03.03.2017

Adam Stone

Artist, Curator, Lecturer / academic, Researcher

Approved: 03.03.2017

My work is currently focussed upon the relationship between painting and everyday place. At a time when notions of place and the quotidian are being globally contested this work explores what kind of new understanding of place the practice of painting might offer. The research is centred on the Merrion  Shopping Centre, Leeds and is informed by onsite investigation and the study of various local archives. The ideas and discourses underpinning the work include psychogeographic practices of walking, phenomenological understanding of being in place, memory and the archive and new materialist concepts which propose a radical rethinking of our perception and place in the world 

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  • Location: Leeds, Yorkshire
 

Artist Statement

My work is currently focussed upon the relationship between painting and everyday place. At a time when notions of place and the quotidian are being globally contested this work explores what kind of new understanding of place the practice of painting might offer. The research is centred on the Merrion  Shopping Centre, Leeds and is informed by onsite investigation and the study of various local archives. The ideas and discourses underpinning the work include psychogeographic practices of walking, phenomenological understanding of being in place, memory and the archive and new materialist concepts which propose a radical rethinking of our perception and place in the world 

CV & Education

Education                        
University of Leeds   PhD : Practice Led- Research, Painting Place    2014 - 2019
Huddersfield University    Post Graduate Diploma in Education           2002-2004
Royal Academy of Arts    Post Graduate Diploma in Painting              1996 -1999
Staffordshire University    B.A. Hons Fine Art                                       1990-1993


Teaching Positions

Course Leader Access To HE     Leeds College of Art                  2012-
Lecturer MA Creative Practice    Leeds College of Art                  2013-
Lecturer BA Hons Fine Art          Leeds College of Art                  2009 – 2011
Tutor Access to HE                     Leeds College of Art                  2002-   2012
Tutor Foundation                        Harrogate College/LCA              2001–  2002 

Conference Presentations 

RITE Conference Leeds University     Poster presentation            2015
Fine Art & Design Conference           Paper presentation              2015

Membership of professional and learned societies

Royal Academy Schools Alumni Association
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
    
Exhibitions
        
Still                                  Studio 24, Leeds                                     2015
Derwent Drawing Prize   Mall Gallery, London                               2013
Plinth                              Leeds College of Art, Leeds                    2010
RA Summer Show         Royal Academy of Arts, London              2009
Antony Gormley             ‘Oneandother’, London                            2009
Group show                   The Reliance, Leeds                                2009
Light                               Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford              2007
Nowadays                      Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford              2006
New Urbanites               Catto Contemporary,London                   2002
Art 2002                         Design Centre,Islington,London              2002
Group Show                  Catto Contemporary,London                    2001
Group Show                  Sarah Wiseman Gallery,Oxford               2001
Kunst Darm                   Henry Peacock Gallery                            2001
Group Show                  Bruton Street Gallery,London                  2000
Battersea Arts Show     Battersea,London                                    2000
Group Show                  Dean Clough Gallery,Halifax                   2000
RAS Show                    Royal Academy ,London                         1999
Award Winners             Air Gallery, London                                 1998
Fresh Paint                   Wiseman Gallery, Oxford                        1998
Premiums                     Royal Academy, London                         1997/98/99

Awards Comissions & Collections

Cambridge University Clare College                         Collection     2016

Henry Moore Institute                                                Collection     2010

Andre Dunoyer de Segonsac                                    Award          1999

Vincent Harris Prize in Painting                                 Award          1999

Brinsley Ford travel scholarship                               Award           1998

Edna Rose Weiss Prize for figurative Painting        Award            1998

Rover Group Commission                                        Collection      1998                         

Publications 

Bruton St Gallery, ‘New Talent’ Catalogue                                  January       2001
The Exhibitionist’(where is ) painting now?  Chris Taylor            July             2000  
The Times,  Around the Galleries, Rachel Cambell-Johnston    February     1998    
Arts review , 'View’,   Great British Arts Show                             June            1994